ERASMUS+

Project YEEE: Training Course for Youth Workers in Paraguay

Spanish version below

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Associação Juventude de Vila Fonche recently participated in another activity with the support of the Erasmus + program. This activity (Training Course for Youth Workers) was held in Cerrito (Paraguay), from October 28th to November 6th.
During this training course, the Associação Juventude de Vila Fonche was represented by Diana Cerqueira, Francisco Barros and Hélder Costa. This training course was part of a project entitled “YEEE – Youth Educations on Environment & Entrepreneurship”. YEEE is a Capacity Building project coordinated by the Italian organization P.E.CO. and we, Associação Juventude de Vila Fonche, participate as partners. In addition to these two organizations, this project also is an alliance with others organization as an European organization (Spain) and three Latin America organizations (Mexico, Ecuador and Paraguay).
This capacity building project will last two years and its main objective is to share good practices on youth policies developed in European countries and in Latin American countries on the themes of “environment” and “sustainability” , of the implementation of activities based on non-formal education and social entrepreneurship.

During the training course that took place in Paraguay, youth workers from different countries explored and learned new work tools on social entrepreneurship and how these tools can play an essential role for rural development. There was also time for a deeper analysis of the needs of partner organizations and the development of an action plan to meet these same needs.
For us, Associação Juventude de Vila Fonche, this training course has allowed us to reflect internally and redefine strategies for the future and sustainability of our organization. They were, without doubt, intense days, full of many personal and professional learning and reflections.
In the last two days of this training course the two Youth Exchanges that are part of this project have been planned. The first exchange will take place in Mexico from January 10th to 18th and the second one will be in Italy from March 19th to 27th. These exchanges will involve 5 participants, between the ages of 18 and 30, and 2 group leaders from each of the partner organizations. During these two activities, participants are expected to learn some tools of social entrepreneurship and perceive / reflect on the importance and impact that these projects can assume for rural development.
The three people who represented the Associação Juventude de Vila Fonche returned with their backpack full of new learnings and new ideas for future projects that, without a doubt, will benefit our organization, as well as the young people of our community.